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The premier magazine of Catholic apologetics and evangelization for more than two decades, Catholic Answers Magazine helps build your faith—and your ability to defend it. Its lively articles are written by some of the best Catholic thinkers in the U. S. Church. Six times a year, the magazine’s 48 eye-catching, full-color pages will hit your mailbox with articles explaining the Faith or answering objections from other points of view. You’ll find clear-to-understand critiques of non-Catholic positions, exchanges between Catholics and non-Catholics on key religious issues, and personal conversion stories. Don’t miss another issue—subscribe now.

Sample Articles From Catholic Answers Magazine

Contraception’s Dark Fruits: The legacies of artificial birth control are the strongest arguments against it
Laura Locke
Since I became a Catholic four years ago, I can pretty much predict the questions I will be asked by curious Evangelical friends. The first is usually “What’s the big deal about Mary?” and the second is “What’s wrong with using contraceptives?”
Dismissing the Dismas Case: Why the “good thief” disproves neither baptism’s necessity nor purgatory
Jim Blackburn
The Catholic Church teaches that the sacrament of baptism is necessary: “Baptism is birth into the new life in Christ. In accordance with the Lord’s will, it is necessary for salvation” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1277). This is why the Church baptizes infants:
How to Make Sound Arguments for the Faith
Matt Fradd
If you frequent websites such as YouTube or Facebook, you’ve probably read the exchanges that take place on these forums. Sometimes they are intelligent and substantive, but often they resemble two toddlers squabbling: “Did too.” “Did not.” “Did too.”
The Truth About 2012: Predictions of global change have no basis, even in Mayan myth
Jimmy Akin
On December 21, 2012, something momentous is going to happen. The Mayan calendar says so. Everybody knows it. They’ve been talking about it on the late-night airwaves and on the Internet and in books for years. But what’s going to happen?
The Trouble with Yoga: A Catholic may practice the physical postures, but with caveats
Michelle Arnold
In the last few years yoga, to use Internet lingo, has gone viral. Stores are filled with yoga clothing, equipment, books, and videos; churches and synagogues offer yoga classes to their congregants, with some Christian communities claiming to offer “Christian-based” programs; and even the in...
Why a Celibate Priesthood?: The spiritual and practical reasons are rife
Mark P. Shea
The celibacy of the Catholic priesthood is a sign of great contradiction in our time. Our culture stares at it in blank incomprehension, and on that blankness it projects numerous fantasies to try to explain it.

Featured Articles From Past Issues

Bad Poetry, Bad Theology: The Curse of Bad Liturgical Music (Part Two)
Anthony Esolen
Part One of our series on liturgical music looked at why contemporary Church music is unsingable. As it turns out, strained melodies are just...
Visible Reminders of Invisible Light
Michael Schrauzer
West portal and nave of Chartres Cathedral (1194-1260), Chartres, France. For most practical purposes, the glorious windows of Chartres are...
Tell the Good News, Father!: Homilies as Evangelical Tools
Fr. William Dillard
In recent decades the art of the homily has seen serious decline. As a result many churchgoers for whom the Sunday sermon constitutes much of...
Extraordinary Form 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Old Latin Mass
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI made one of the Church’s treasures—a liturgical form observed by Roman Catholics for centuries—available to...

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